likelihood

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the chance of something happening
chanceThere's a good chance he'll resign.
probabilityWhat's the probability of winning?
oddsWhat are the odds that she takes him back?
likelihoodThe treaty increases the likelihood that the cease-fire will hold.
possibilityThere's a distinct possibility I won't be able to make it to the pub tonight.
 in all probability
C2
used to mean that something is very likely: 很可能;大概
She will, in all probability, have left before we arrive.她十有八九会在我们到达之前就已经离开了。
What's the probability of that happening?
There's a strong probability that we'll have moved by then.
There's a distinct probability that Philip will be there.
There's a high probability that she'll get the job.
Against all probability we found ourselves in the same hotel.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Possible and probable
add credence to something
always
anything's possibleidiom
arguably
as never beforeidiom
bet
fair
happen
houseroom
I shouldn't wonderidiom
in with a chance
it isn't over until the fat lady singsidiom
manage
probabilistic
probabilistically
probable
probably
prospective
tend
tip

probability | American Dictionary

probability
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˌprɑb·əˈbɪl·ɪ·t̬i/
mathematics
a number that represents how likely it is that a particular thing will happen
mathematics
Probability is the study of the mathematics of calculating the likelihood that particular events will happen.
the likelihood of something happening or being true:
[ C ]There’s a higher probability of now having a state income tax (= the tax is more likely now).
In all probability he would never see her again (= very likely he would not see her again).

probability | Business English

probability
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ˌprɒbəˈbɪləti/uspluralprobabilities
the level of possibility that something will happen or is true:
high/low/strong probabilityThere is a strong probability that the country will fall into recession again.
probability of sthSpam filters calculate the probability of a message being spam.
assess/calculate/estimate the probabilities They also estimated the probabilities of dividend increases and decreases under certain circumstances.

Examples of probability

probability
Transition probabilities were calculated directly from clinical trial data for the first 3 years and then extrapolated to 10 years.
We assume that the age differences within a cohort are small enough to consider these subgroups as being homogeneous with respect to transition probabilities.
The main interest is in characterizing how precisely we can 'bound' the probabilities associated with various atoms.
His treatment is probabilistic, where probabilities are obtained from statistical data, rather than being subjective probabilities.
The probabilities here can be derived from statistical data on the relative frequency of prescriptions of drugs under given conditions.
At each cycle of the process, the cohort is reallocated to health states according to specified transition probabilities.
A better position, surely, would be to consider the objective probabilities of the unrealized alternatives.
I hold that cases in which (only) numbers are different are structurally similar to cases in which (only) probabilities are different.
The probabilities that seedlings reached reproductive size were estimated to be between 2.8 and 5%.
Then, for each grid, we add the square of the difference of two probabilities.
Conversely, canopy trees show slower dynamics, with probabilities of mortality and recruitment lowered by a mean factor of about 0.5 with respect to other species.
All probabilities are appropriately conditioned on the observed data, and users can find any probabilities of interest.
Evaluating and combining physicians' probabilities of survival in an intensive care unit.
The survival for the first year was estimated by multiplying the matrix detailing the monthly probabilities by itself between 1 and 12 times.
The majority of studies presented both positive and negative outcomes of the intervention/treatment decisions, and one third attached probabilities to these outcomes.
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Collocations withprobability

probability

These are words often used in combination with probability.

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associated probability
Secondly, the conditional independence statements implied by the graph can be used to factorise the associated probability distribution.
cumulative probability
All 11 component community samples demonstrated an approximately log-normal distribution of parasite species using cumulative probability plots.
estimated probability
Here a correct prediction is made if the voter chooses the party with the highest estimated probability.
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